Aivsy: Ha Ha Ha! I bet you guys are really confused that I changed my pen name again! Stupid teenagers can never make up their minds! Ha Ha Ha!

Hero: You're an idiot!

Aivsy: What does that make you!

Hero: (confused)

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Gentle Breeze

Chapter 7: The Bounty Hunter Taku

Ai's eyes flickered open and immediately her head began to ache. Slowly, she came to a sitting position. She felt eyes on the back of her neck making her entire body shiver uncontrollably.

"My what a pretty little girl, Jin was lucky enough to fall right on your door step!" a voice hissed from the corner. Ai spun around to see the head bounty hunter staring at her sadistically. A long white scar cut over his left eye and his wild black hair sat atop his broad shoulders. It was obvious that he'd been very handsome before he was scarred. "We got lucky that he had such a beautiful woman. That makes you ours now that the pathetic coward has lost you!"

Ai's eyes widened in fear as she desperately tried to get as far away from the approaching bounty hunter. "Stay away from me!" she screamed, looking for something to use as a weapon.

"He's coming for you, my sweet, and when he arrives, I'm personally cut the bastards head from his shoulders!" the bounty hunter hissed.

"No!" she screamed tears pouring from her pretty chocolate brown eyes. "Don't hurt him!" Ai cried, the thought of losing Jin invading her thoughts.

"A pretty little girl like yourself shouldn't cry." The bounty hunter lifted her chin up so that he could look her in the face. "You well be mine! I just have to get rid of the competition! Don't shed tears for such a pathetic excuse for a demon, as soon as he's dead you well join me in my bed!" Ai choked on the air around her. Her mind numbed and she felt her stomach ache with disgust.

"You're sick!" she hissed out of fear and disgust!

"Little Ai, don't you worry your pretty little head over him," he said into her ear. She flinched as his warm breath reach her neck. "You well come to the west wall at sundown to witness the exacution of Jin the Wind Master!"

Ai's eyes widened again in fear. "Goodbye my sweet!" he said and left her alone in the hut.

She pulled her knees to her chest and sobbed. "Jin!" she cried, tears running freely from her face. "Please Jin!" Her body shook in fear and emotional pain. "No!"

Sun cast a beautiful array of orange, pink, and red over the horizon.

"Ai," Jin said softly, seeing her face in the clouds above his head. Her smile stuck in his mind like glue. But he simply shook his head and continued forward. The Bounty Hunters camp appeared as he got closer.

"Jin!" a familiar voice called from behind him. He spun around to see Touya's familiar face.

"Touya!" Jin yelped in shock and fell backwards.

"I told you that sneaking up on him was a bad idea!"

Jin looked around his friend to see a young girl with long blue hair and sea green eyes dressed in ninja clothes. Her hands were bound together with a piece of rope which Touya held in his hand. Jin's raised his eyebrows at his comrade.

"She might try something underhanded and tricky!" Touya said smiling and helped Jin to his feet. "She's shameless!"

"Feh!"

"Okay, but unfortunately I have something I have to do!" Jin said and turned back to the fortress/camp.

"That's why we're here!" Touya said waving a crumpled piece of paper under Jin's nose, whom immediately recognized it.

"That's the…!" Jin left the sentence unfinished

"It hit Suyou in the face just this morning," Jin looked at Suyou and noticed the faint stains of ink on her face. "We knew you'd be here because your not the type to turn it down," Touya continued.

"And you're here to…?" Jin said raising his eyebrows.

"To help you to save that girl of yours!" Touya snapped, "Weren't you paying attention?"

"And her?" Jin asked nodding toward the girl who was pouting like a small child.

"She's what got us to your campsite, she tracked you to that letter, which brought us here. Actually she's turned out t be a lot better at ninjitsu than I first took her for!" Touya explained.

Jin raised his eyebrows again. "Anyway, I have to take care of this bounty hunter and then get Ai back safely."

"Is that some kind of pet name, 'Ai', or is it her real name?" Suyou asked, saying something for the first time since they'd met.

Jin stopped and looked back at the teenage girl. "Why?"

"Oh just wondering," Suyou said quickly and looked up at the setting sun.

"It's her real name, Tokiyama Ai," Jin said.

Suyou's eyes widened in shock, "Well what are you waiting for! The suns going down! Pretty soon it'll be too late!" Suyou snapped.

Jin didn't need to be told twice. And he was gone before anyone could stop him.

"Well, I came to help and he takes off without me!" Touya closed his eyes and bowed his head. When he finally looked up Suyou was gone as well, and the rope that bound her laid in a heap where she'd been sitting. "Aww damn!" and Touya started off towards the hunter's camp.

Jin made it to the wall of the bounty hunter's camp. He looked up at the twelve-foot wall that had once been white. Now it looked worn and gray, over the wall was several large tents that were patched on the corners, there were demon horses that they rode and armor and weaponry of every size and type lining the tents. On top of that, there were only about fifteen or twenty bounty hunters lead by another bounty hunter by the name of Taku.

Years before Jin and Taku met, Taku had been hunting him for a large sum of money. When they'd fought Taku was hideously scared across the left eye.

"Taku!" Jin whispered.

Ai didn't know how long she'd been crying until the head bounty hunter returned. He watched for a long time before she finally noticed him.

"Come now, we have an exacution to attend," he said grabbing her arm. She immediately began to struggle.

"Let me go!" she hissed clawing at his hand that firmly grasped her arm. "Stop it!" she desperately dug her teeth into his hand.

He simply laughed at her fruitless attempts to get free. Yet bit harder until blood began to draw from the tiny teeth wounds.

"I've had many wounds my sweet, do you honestly think that a little bite would hurt me?" he laughed. Ai pulled away pulling against his grasp.

"LET ME GO!" she screamed as loudly as she could.

"LET ME GO!"

"Ai!" Jin looked up startled to hear her voice. Something in him snapped and he easily leapt over the wall, ready to kill Taku for good this time.

Well? What do you think? I'm not very good at fight scenes but there well certainly be a big one in the next chapter! PLEASE REVIEW! This time I promise to update sooner.

Arigato!